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I am unlucky enough to have a window and a door with a window in my cinema room
I bought two blackout blinds from Lewis' - The fitting instructions were apalling.
Because my windows are UPVC, The handles to the windows and doors stick out by 2" so the blind has to be moved further forward.
I have major light spill all around the window....
I haven't even attempted the doorway yet...too dispondent.
Any Ideas how to cut out the light and still make it look neat.
I had thought about making large plugs with acoustic foam to slot into the holes, they could be stored behind the sofa when not in use.

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Just a thought,
If you bought some white square channel conduit, or a similar white plastic profile moulding and stuck it either side of the blind you could use it as a channel to run the edges of the blind in to substantially cut down on light spill.

Dave

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Fabric Warehouse sell self adhesive vecro - about £2 per m. Thats exactly how I attached my initial blackout blinds (have gone all professional and bought the proper thing now, but the price - Ouch!). Looked great and you hardly notice the velcro on the white frames.

I had to stitch the velcro to the blackout cloth though as occasionally, despite being very sticky, it would pull off the material when removing the blinds. You will get a tiny tiny amount of lightspill through the stitching holes though.

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Thanks for all suggestions.
I think I may combine the two problems that I have
1. Light
2.sound

I am going to cut out black out cloth and sound absorbing foam to size and place it in each frame cutting out light and hopefully a lot of my noise so I don't annoy the neighbour who's bedroom is pretty close to my cinema room.